How often do we really need to wash our kids???

[Bunny10]

So I read today that Vivienne Westwood only has a bath once a week to keep her looking young and to save water/help the environment. It got me thinking - how often do your kids have a bath or shower? I'm in the habit of giving my little ones a bath every night although they probably don't need it. It's just a habit/part of their routine. But I keep reading about how we need to stop wasting so much water in the home as water levels are low and am feeling guilty. Any tips on keeping kids clean without a nightly bath???

You probably brush your rotten teeth only occasionally which is why you've called me out

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I love the bollocks about it's relaxing for them. For DD2 and DS2, a bath makes them hyper, so does drying DS2, as he's crazily ticklish after a bath. DD2 dries herself now, thank goodness! Also, neither of them actually needs anything to relax them at bedtime. They go to bed, they fall asleep.

Only twice per day?? You're minging by lunchtime, what about all those people that have to eat lunch with you, in close proximity to your filthy unwashed body?

Me, personally, I shower every hour, on the hour. Then i disinfect myself, and bathe in cologne. But of course I understand not everybody wants to be as hygienic and fragrant as me.

Of course another reason other cultures think Brits are dirty is lack of arse washing, but let's not go there!

What a variation for a number of reasons!

My husband and I bath or shower daily as we are both runners or use the gym daily. I sweat loads so it's a no brainier

My 1yr old bath daily as he's a mucky pup and I couldn't send him to bed in the nursery grim. Goodness knows what they get up to there.

I sometimes have to rinse him in the morning as he sweats quite a bit at night (wonder where he gets that from!) and I couldn't send him out with a stale smell.

I think it's a good practice to get him in to now as I believe I will have a sweaty teenager on my hands. I'd rather the habit in bed now then try to install it during those difficult years

This made to smile

DD(9) has sink wash every morning and bath or shower every night, hair wash about three times a week, more if needed. She prefers a bath but will have a shower for speed. More inclined now I let her have free range over whatever shower gels etc I've got if she has a shower. What I save on water, I spend on showergel!

This is amazing.

OK, so this is how I think it goes:

If ilovesouthlondon says she washed XY bodypart so many times a day, then that's both gospel truth and the obviously correct way to do it, and the rest of us who do it differently are all dirty mingers with poor hygiene.

If any other poster, taking Ilovesouthlondon's own account of her own habits at face value, states that they wash YZ bodypart twice as often as ilovesouthlondon, then that poster is totally lying, and is obviously still a dirty minger with poor hygiene, as reading about ilovesouthlondon's fragrant habits have obviously touched a nerve.

Right!

Kebab ?!

According to this thread, some of these thrice daily washers must be bathing in sanctimony and judgement because it's absolutely dripping off them.

And it stinks. What a great thread!

They just deleted me going the long way round, telling ArcheryAnnie to take a bath shower and stop being jealous of those who do. Don't forget your teeth Annie...

Really ILove, what is your problem?

I think you're the vilest poster I've ever come across on here.

CaptainsCat why do you think I care what you think about me? You do not know me...all you know is that I am hygienic. I am responding to somebody afraid of water who is insulting me. If I am the vilest person you have ever come across you are lucky. Get a life

I hardly think that I am the one who needs to get a life; I'm not the one so obviously getting their pathetic enjoyment from being needlessly unpleasant to people I don't know.

And you're right that I only know one thing about you, but that hasn't anything much to do with your hygiene 😂

CaptainsCat you are a hypocrite. You are making judgement about my comments however you fail to have noticed that I am responding to nasty comments made about me. Your bias could be because she's your mate but at the end of the day who cares? How you feel about this makes no difference in my life. I gave my opinion, another poster got personal because I touched a nerve and I responded to that. You both probably suffer from the same issues which is why you have now taken over in targeting my opinion. This is not needlessly being unpleasant, perhaps you should read the thread first. So I guess you think your comments are pleasant... Both of you need to get a life, preferably in a hot shower

Yeeeah I'm not the one who had their comment deleted for being spiteful but then still obviously felt the need to reiterate what they had said - pretty obvious that the ishoos are all yours! I don't see anyone else stooping to jibes about poster's supposedly 'rotten teeth'. Only you.

You just aren't very nice, are you. That's a shame for you.

CaptainsCat she's clearly your mate. You didn't read what was deleted so your talking rubbish. You have read the personal comments that she wrote and think it's ok to come at me lol. I think your full of sh*t. You obviously don't care about what I think so why do you think I could care less about your opionion? The best way for you to defend your friend right now is with a can of Right Guard deodorant. You don't think I'm nice. I don't think you are nice either. The world won't end thank God. Just bathe on a daily basis for goodness sake then you won't feel insecure and nasty.

Jesus Christ, this thread can basically be summed up as, "urgh, you smell..."

The 3/4 year olds I work with every day have better manners.

The thread is about hygiene and is asking for people's opinions so surprise, surprise that's what has happened. In typical mumsnet style if someone doesn't agree some people arnt nature enough to let everyone have a view but try to "flame" people by getting personal. Well I'm a quarter pounder for this thread so "flame away" lool. This is why many people dont use mumsnet.

But, Ilovesouthlondon, those of us who don’t shower as often as you are not throwing insults and insisting that you should do as we do, we are fine with the fact that you have a different way of doing things, yes everyone is entitled to their opinion. It is you squeaky clean people that are demanding we do things your way cos we obviously smell, which we don’t! Can’t you leave us to wallow in our supposed filth, we’re not doing you or anyone any harm.

Shboogiebop please do wallow in your filth but before you do that talk facts. Nobody was trying to force anyone to bathe initially. If you go back a step and read the thread a particular person who claims they are happy not bathing regularly got personal and got the response they deserved. This is the point that is deliberately being missed... Also it is very unpleasant for others to put up with that musty decaying smell on shared transport. If you are as happy as a pig in mud that's fine but don't impose the stink on others. Also if someone insults me personally (a total stranger who I did not insult first I might add) I don't care how many mumsnet friends or mumsnet HQ come to defend them I'll defend myself. Water off a ducks back. Literally lool.

I will repeat it again, I do not smell so I am not inflicting any decaying musty smell on anyone. I am not nose blind, I can smell my DS a mile off when he stinks. So please stop telling us that we stink, you haven’t met us so you don’t know. And it’s not touching a raw nerve at all, you’re just wrong.

If you are as happy as a pig in mud that's fine but don't impose the stink on others.

The point is, ilovesouthlondon, that people who bathe differently to you on here do not smell.

Different people sweat and smell to different extents. It depends on genes, age, what they've eaten, if they drink, for women the time in their cycle, or menopausal or pubertal - just because you might smell if you did not bathe so obsessively (I don't know if you would or not, since you haven't said) doesn't mean others do. Some will, some won't.

People are different! Who'd have thunk?

ArcheryAnnie you may have a point there (that's a big may) and if only your first post had this tone instead of the rude, personal and aggressive attack on me, this thread would have ended ages ago. Problem is people who do not bathe or brush their teeth regularly are a bit like dead or stupid people. Allow me to explain...when you are dead, you don't know you are dead it is just difficult for others left behind. When you are stupid you don't know you are stupid it's just difficult for those around you. Often when you smell you don't know that you smell, it's just difficult for those around you. I am not saying that you smell as I've never met you. You have had you're opinion (This time without initiating insults) and I have had mine. Hopefully we can put this to bed now.